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Destinations told one at a time, each with the trip that goes with it — ready to make your own.
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Umbria has no sea and no border. It is a region of hilltop towns, saints and mountains in the middle of Italy. This trip covers it in a week from Perugia, from Assisi to the Piano Grande and on to Orvieto.
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The Ordesa canyon beneath Monte Perdido, Romanesque monasteries tucked under cliffs, an outsized international railway station and stone villages with conical chimneys. Six days on a loop from Huesca, on the dry, sunny side of the Pyrenees.
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The toe of the boot, caught between two seas with barely a plain to its name: from the cliffs of Tropea to Scilla’s rock, from the temples of Magna Graecia to the pines of the Sila. A week-long loop from Lamezia Terme, first along the coast, then up into the mountains.
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For more than a hundred kilometres the river carves the border between Portugal and Spain. From Bragança to Foz Côa the villages stay perched, the road switches banks over the crests of the dams, and the viewpoints make the whole journey.
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An hour south of Pamplona, green Navarre gives way to a semi-desert of clay and gypsum, shaped by rain more than by wind. Two days are enough for the Bardena Blanca, five to circle the desert by way of Olite and the Cinco Villas.
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Between Soria and Burgos, the Castilian plateau opens without warning onto a limestone canyon where griffon vultures nest. You drive little, you walk a lot, and on weekdays you meet few people.